The character of Rabbit from this author’s Wake-Robin Ridge series has stolen many readers’ hearts, mine included (pretty sure there’s an official fan club). I’m ecstatic that she’s working on a spinoff novella featuring him and other characters from the series. Haunted house or haunted graveyard? She gives some pretty sound logic for her choice. Welcome Marcia Meara!
Thank you so much for having me on board again this year, Teri. I look forward to Bad Moon Rising every October, and love passing it along for others to enjoy!
Would you rather visit a haunted house or a haunted graveyard?
I’d prefer a haunted graveyard. More room to RUN, and no doors to suddenly become locked, thus trapping me inside!
Do you believe in any ‘mythical’ monsters like chupacabras or shadow people?
None so far, but I like to keep an open mind where legends about scary animals are concerned, just in case there’s some basis for some of them. After all, naturalists are discovering new and unusual real animals out there all the time. Some of the legends could have come from sightings of those.
If you could have a spooky Halloween pet (black cat, owl, bat, rat, wolf, etc.), which would you choose?
We’ve had many black cats over the years and one of our current four is a black tuxedo cat, so if I were picking a spooky Halloween pet, I think I’d go with a wolf. Wolves are incredibly beautiful, clever, and interesting. And I’m told they are guaranteed to deter solicitors at the door.
How do you use social media as an author?
Abysmally, as far as actual marketing goes. But in wonderfully fun ways if you’re talking about networking with other authors and bloggers. I love how many friends I’ve met over the nine years I’ve been writing, and I learn from every one of them. I use my blog, The Write Stuff, not only to share my own work and news, but as much of theirs as I can, plus all sorts of stuff on various writing-related topics, as well. I wouldn’t give up my blog for anything!
Serious marketing (paid or otherwise) is something I’ve yet to tackle, but social media and the clever and entertaining community I find myself amidst has enriched my writing and my life in more ways than I can count!
What books did you grow up reading?
All of them! *wink* Seriously, my mother took me to the library every week, and by 3rd grade, I’d read every book in the children’s section and she was forced to start finding adult books that were okay for a kid my age. The year I turned 12 was my BIG year. I started on all the popular authors of the day, and most of the classic ones from years past. I devoured Poe, Tennyson, Dickinson, Ayn Rand, Steinbeck, Bradbury, Salinger, Uris, Fitzgerald, Ferber, and more, including my all-time favorite of any generation, Daphne du Maurier. (My daughter’s middle name is Rebecca). I’ve never stopped reading, and never plan to.
What are you working on now?
I have two WIPs underway, though between some health issues and some major house and yard projects, I haven’t been able to focus on either in recent weeks. I hope to get back to each of them very soon.
I’m about halfway through the 4th Riverbend novel, tentatively entitled A Need to Burn, which will introduce some new characters in that sleepy little Florida town. I’ve also started the first of a Wake-Robin Ridge spinoff trilogy of novellas, which I think will be called Cole, Cole, & Dupree Investigative Services. These novellas will feature everyone’s favorite gifted mountain boy, Rabbit, along with his dad, MacKenzie Cole, and his unofficially adopted big brother, Austin Dupree.
I will probably work on finishing the novella first because it’s shorter, and I’d love to get something new completed and published fairly soon. I need to make up for lost time!
Was Gabe Angelino, the mysterious truck driver in Finding Hunter: Riverbend Book 2, really an angel, as Willow Green believes? Or was he simply a good man, determined to help a stranger in need? Find out, as author Marcia Meara reveals the truth in the first Riverbend spinoff novella, The Emissary.
An angel’s work is never done—that’s part of the gig. But angels hadn’t been created to deal with such a vastly over-populated planet, rife with misery, suffering, and general chaos. Helping souls in peril has become a nearly impossible job, and even angelic tempers are frayed.
The archangel Azrael has had enough. He believes he’s found a way to ease their burden while saving jeopardized humans, too—hired help.
When Jake Daughtry lost his life rescuing a total stranger from certain death, he was on the fast track to Heaven. But that was before Azrael pulled him right out of line at the Pearly Gates. Now, as an Emissary to the Angels, Jake is taking to the highway in a quest to help souls in trouble. But the innate stubbornness of human beings bent on self-destruction is a challenge unlike any he’s ever faced.
It’s up to Jake and Azrael to bridge the gap between humans and angels. Will they ever convince the Council of Angels this endeavor is worthwhile? Can Jake figure out how to play by Azrael’s complicated rules? Will Azrael ever master the use of contractions in general conversation?
To find out the answers, hop on board Jake’s big red-and-white semi and travel the roads from the Florida Keys to north Georgia on an adventure that will make you laugh hard and cry even harder.
Purchase link below.
Author Bio and Social Media
Marcia Meara lives in central Florida, just north of Orlando, with her husband of over thirty years and four big cats. When not writing or blogging, she spends her time gardening, and enjoying the surprising amount of wildlife that manages to make a home in her suburban yard. She enjoys nature. Really, really enjoys it. All of it! Well, almost all of it, anyway. From birds, to furry critters, to her very favorites, snakes. The exception would be spiders, which she truly loathes, convinced that anything with eight hairy legs is surely up to no good. She does not, however, kill spiders anymore, since she knows they have their place in the world. Besides, her husband now handles her Arachnid Catch and Release Program, and she’s good with that.
Spiders aside, the one thing Marcia would like to tell each of her readers is that it’s never too late to make your dreams come true. If, at the age of 69, she could write and publish a book (and thus fulfill 64 years of longing to do that very thing), you can make your own dreams a reality, too. Go for it! What have you got to lose?
Marcia has published seven novels, three novellas, and one book of poetry to date, all of which are available on Amazon:
A Boy Named Rabbit: Wake-Robin Ridge Book 2
Harbinger: Wake-Robin Ridge Book 3
The Light: Wake-Robin Ridge Book 4
Swamp Ghosts: A Riverbend Novel
Finding Hunter: Riverbend Book 2
That Darkest Place: Riverbend Book 3
The Emissary: A Riverbend Spinoff Novella
The Emissary 2: To Love Somebody
Summer Magic: Poems of Life & Love
Marcia’s Amazon Author Page
You can reach Marcia via email at marciameara16@gmail.com or on the following social media sites:
Twitter: @marciameara